City of Brotherly Love

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English

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Etymology

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See etymology at Philadelphia.

Proper noun

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the City of Brotherly Love

  1. (poetic) A nickname for Philadelphia. (city in the United States)
    • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
      Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population.